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Americans really need to stop hyperventilating about the supposed crisis on their southern border -- better known as the natural migration of people from one place to another -- and count their blessings.

Americans really need to stop hyperventilating about the supposed crisis on their southern border -- better known as the natural migration of people from one place to another -- and count their blessings.

Her success as an actress and the exposure Alfonso Cuarón and "Roma" have given her, inevitably made Aparicio a trailblazer, a pioneer, a flag bearer for her people who has pushed open doors unfairly closed to indigenous Mexicans for generations.

No matter which of the two top candidates wins in the April 2 runoff, Chicago's inauguration of a female African-American mayor will make a kind of history that none of the other top cities in America can claim.

Cuba, that stubborn alligator-shaped little Caribbean island that for six decades has resisted the hostility of the world’s most powerful country, overwhelmingly approved last Sunday in a referendum a new Constitution.

“Justice and truth can flourish only when journalists are given freedom of speech, so prosperity can come about,” the former president said 30 years ago — before he went on to add the magic words that toppled the Berlin Wall.

Tom Brokaw’s profoundly ignorant remarks about Hispanics and assimilation were surprising and shocking, but the rush from many in the Latino community to prove him wrong by justifying themselves in the worst possible way was even more so.

This is a triple win for Democrats. They got everything they wanted (no second shutdown). They only gave up something they were willing to give up anyway (additional border funding). And, in the process, they didn't have to go along with something they oppose (a wall).

Despite the record-low minority jobless percentages that President Trump touted as a success in his State of the Union, there is still a gap between white and minority unemployment rates -- and it's not getting much narrower.

Is somebody like PA Secretary of Education Pedro Rivera, “unassimilated”, I asked in our recent #ALDIAHigherEdLEADERS Summit2019, where he was the Keynote Speaker? No. However, Pedro is yet another U.S. Latino now under suspicion of perhaps being yet another “brown grand-baby”— one who needs to work harder at assimilation, or learn better English, if we were to believe former national TV anchor Tom Brokaw. If we were to trust the half-truth the NBC star’s gaffe has unexpectedly championed.